[madaxe]

Sorry, that's the funniest thing I've read all week.

An American president with a moral backbone?

Give me a break.

That's like expecting it to rain candyfloss.

The presidency is a hollow man, a figurehead - it's all just a show to make you think you have a democracy. The tail wags the dog, and entrenched non-elected interests run the show, through corruption, lobbying (corruption), and special interests (corruption).

[einehexe]

Lost in all the America hate is the fact that the tapping of Google and Yahoo was done by the British. The whole west is complicit but only America gets the hate so it can continue easily.

[madaxe]

Britain is equally broken - and as you say, the whole west is complicit, and all, to varying degrees, suffer from the same malaise.